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[Music] in 1940 the city of Richmond annexed ten square miles of Henrico County it was sort of like an ink blot effect imagine ink is put here and as the area grows around the city terms of population and so forth then the idea was for the city to keep expanding in the two decades that followed the little bedroom community known as Henrico County began to shape its own identity and when the city of Richmond decided once again that they needed to expand things had changed I think they felt that they had a good case and but they knew that it was that the county was going to resist as it should have done and asserted to protect its own interests and to protect citizens most of them did not want to be annexed in 1959 there were just over 107 thousand residents in Henrico County by 1965 that number had increased by nearly 40,000 nationwide urban flight was on the rise as people flocked to neighboring counties as a result Virginia's cities began to look across their borders for much-needed tax relief Virginia has a very unique situation in terms of local governments he always stayed in the nation that provides what we call the separate separation of cities and counties it goes all the way back to a court decision made by Virginia Supreme Court at the outset of the 20th century early 1900s where the court and a rather lengthy opinion said basically those who live in urban areas citizens who live in urban areas and therefore require more services in terms of police streets welfare etc should be situated in cities on the other hand counties were looked upon as governments that would provide services far fewer services for people living in rural areas the idea therefore of the court or what the court set forth many many years ago was the notion that whenever portions of a county adjoining a city come more urbanized then there was every rationale for the city to take over that portion of the urbanized portion of the county in the late 1950s and early 60s annexing just a small portion of a neighboring County became a thing of the past in order to meet the needs of their growing populations cities and counties throughout Virginia began to merge entirely when I first went to work for The Times in spats in 1953 there were 100 counties in Virginia had been that way for many many years but in the 60s there was a consolidation trend down in Tidewater of this myth City County consolidated with the city of Hampton Warwick County and nuprin News consolidated to form the city of Newport News across the bay the city of Virginia Beach and Princess Anne consolidated and that was that was a a trend that seemed to be far more attractive to people than the old traditional solution of annexation which was a legal battle as a...